Beijing, the capital city of China, attracts worldwide attention as a modern metropolis. Life with fast pace and work with high pressure are commonly found in people living there. However, when it calls for relaxation, Pinggu, the so-called back garden of Beijing, is definitely a preferential choice. Pinggu is located in the east of Beijing,Read more
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The 30th Brazilian National Recreation and Leisure Meeting was held in Curitiba from the 14th to the 16th November. Attended by more than 200 participants, the event counted with official WLO endorsement. Dr. Antonio Bramante, member of the WL Board of Directors, represented the WLO in this important event. The main theme of the 30th Brazilian NationalRead more
The 3rd China (Beijing) Leisure Conference is the last annual conference in preparation for the 2020 WL Congress in Pinggu-Beijing. WLO Chairman, Dr. Roger Coles, WLO legal advisor, Mr. Jack Agrios, and WLO Chief Operating Officer, Dr. Cristina Ortega, participated in the event in representation of the WLO. Taotao, the official mascot of the 2020Read more
WLO is very happy to present you our new website, with which we hope you feel comfortable as community members and users, whatever the device you are navigating with! We have updated the information that was already available (our main events, programs, a webpage containing the different WL News issues), but we have also createdRead more
The WLO announces that Laixi, Qingdao, in China, is joining our WL Communities of Excellence network. This Chinese community has shown a remarkable institutional and political commitment for the promotion of leisure as a means to improve their citizen’s quality of life, as proven by the two successful and city life-changing WL Games hosted byRead more
From WLO, we are delighted to announce that the 2024 WL Congress will be organized by the World Leisure Center of Excellence (WLCE) at Breda University of Applied Sciences (BUas), in cooperation with the Centre of Expertise in Leisure, Tourism and Hospitality of the Netherlands (CELTH) and other partners. Under the overall theme of “LeisureRead more
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The Seminar on Leisure Sports and Social Development held at Hangzhou Normal University, China, on the 14th October, started with a round table discussion around the potential development of a China Leisure Sports City Evaluation Index. Different questions were posed, such as the understanding of the concept “sports city”, how should leisure sports cities beRead more
Students and members of the WLO Board of Directors were welcome by Jane Zhou and Cehn Weiying, deputy director of the Office of Global Engagement at Zhejiang University (ZJU). The College of Education at ZJU, organizing the Forum, attaches great importance to internationalization, as proved by the college recently joining World Leisure Center of ExcellenceRead more
The overarching goal of the Leisure Experience Research Opportunity, a 3-day research project, was to provide insights into how resident, national and international visitors of Hangzhou experience some of the various leisure attractions of the city. The approach was explicitly a cross-cultural one, with an emphasis on the communalities and differences in experiences between nationalRead more
Supporting Organization signatory party of the Glasgow Declaration on Climate Action in Tourism
